Automatic segmentation of pulmonary vasculature in thoracic CT scans with local thresholding and airway wall removal

2010 7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 668-671

  Van Dongen, Evelien ^a   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Airway wall removal; Computed tomography; Optimal thresholding; Pulmonary image analysis; Vessel enhancement; Vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY WALL REMOVAL; AIRWAY WALLS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTIMAL THRESHOLDING; PULMONARY IMAGE ANALYSIS; VESSEL ENHANCEMENT; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955200342     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2010.5490088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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